> It is conceivable that someone moves into a new town, gets everywhere by > legally using Google maps, never really looking at a street sign (at > least not before knowing exactly what will be on there from his Google > map), and after a year or so knowing most of the place by hard.
> According to your strict reading, the sad git would probably be unable > to contribute to OSM in this town, ever, because is brain is now a > derived work of Google maps... > Bye > Frederik But if this person went out with a GPS unit, collected points, read the street signs and wrote down the details, this originally-researched data would override the contaminated data in his brain? nick *********************************************************************** WARNING: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain legally privileged, confidential or private information and may be protected by copyright. You may only use it if you are the person(s) it was intended to be sent to and if you use it in an authorised way. No one is allowed to use, review, alter, transmit, disclose, distribute, print or copy this e-mail without appropriate authority. If this e-mail was not intended for you and was sent to you by mistake, please telephone or e-mail me immediately, destroy any hardcopies of this e-mail and delete it and any copies of it from your computer system. Any right which the sender may have under copyright law, and any legal privilege and confidentiality attached to this e-mail is not waived or destroyed by that mistake. It is your responsibility to ensure that this e-mail does not contain and is not affected by computer viruses, defects or interference by third parties or replication problems (including incompatibility with your computer system). Opinions contained in this e-mail do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Queensland Department of Main Roads, Queensland Transport or Maritime Safety Queensland, or endorsed organisations utilising the same infrastructure. *********************************************************************** _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
